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Nantucket Select Board · 2024–2025 Board · Regular meeting

May 8, 2025

1 recorded votes, 0 with disagreement.

Sources: Official minutes (PDF)

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Attendance

Present: Thomas Dixon, Matt Fee, Dawn E. Hill, Malcolm MacNab, Brooke Mohr

Absent: None

Every vote, in order

Adjourn to executive session pursuant to MGL C. 30A § 21(A), not to return to open session for the purposes of: 1. Purpose 7: To Comply with, or Act Under the Authority of, Any General or Special Law (Open Meeting Law, G

Minutes, page 1

ProceduralPassed · Unanimous, 5 present

Adjourn to executive session pursuant to MGL C. 30A § 21(A), not to return to open session for the purposes of: 1. Purpose 7: To Comply with, or Act Under the Authority of, Any General or Special Law (Open Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A, §§ 18-23) to Approve Executive Session Minutes of April 10, 2025. 2. Purpose 3: Joint Meeting with Zoning Board of Appeals to Discuss Strategy with Respect to Litigation Regarding Surfside Crossing, LLC v. Nantucket Zoning Board of Appeals, H.A.C. No. 2019-07, where an Open Meeting May have a Detrimental Effect on the Litigating Position of the Select Board/County Commissioners and the Chair so Declares; Votes May be Taken. 3. Purpose 6: To Consider the Purchase, Exchange, Lease, or Value of Real Property Regarding Ames Avenue, Assessor’s Map 60.2.4, Parcel 63.2, where an Open Meeting May have a Detrimental Effect on the Negotiating Position of the Select Board/County Commissioners and the Chair so Declares; Votes May Be Taken. 4. Purpose 6: To Consider the Purchase, Exchange, Lease, or Value of Real Property Regarding 40 Low Beach Road, where an Open Meeting May have a Detrimental Effect on the Negotiating Position of the Select Board/County Commissioners and the Chair so Declares; Votes May Be Taken. 5. Purpose 3: To Discuss Strategy with Respect to Threatened Litigation by the Town Against Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova Relative to the Town’s Litigation Strategy for Cost Recovery for Wind Turbine Failure and Consideration of Proposed Settlement Agreement, where an Open Meeting May have a Detrimental Effect on the Litigating Position of the Select Board/County Commissioners and the Chair so Declares; the Board will Discuss and Deliberate as to Litigation Strategy; Votes May be Taken. Seconded by Mr. Dixon; by roll call vote: Chair Mohr – Yes; Mr. Dixon – Yes; Mr. Fee – Yes; Ms. Holdgate – Yes; Dr. MacNab - Yes; so voted

From the minutes

“Dr. MacNab moved to adjourn to executive session pursuant to MGL C. 30A § 21(A), not to return to open session for the purposes of: 1. Purpose 7: To Comply with, or Act Under the Authority of, Any General or Special Law (Open Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A, §§ 18-23) to Approve Executive Session Minutes of April 10, 2025. 2. Purpose 3: Joint Meeting with Zoning Board of Appeals to Discuss Strategy with Respect to … Agreement, where an Open Meeting May have a Detrimental Effect on the Litigating Position of the Select Board/County Commissioners and the Chair so Declares; the Board will Discuss and Deliberate as to Litigation Strategy; Votes May be Taken. Seconded by Mr. Dixon; by roll call vote: Chair Mohr – Yes; Mr. Dixon – Yes; Mr. Fee – Yes; Ms. Holdgate – Yes; Dr. MacNab - Yes; so voted Approved the 14th day of May 2025.” (Motion: MacNab)

Read it in the official minutes, page 1 (PDF)

From the Nantucket Select Board’s official minutes, posted on the town’s CivicClerk portal. We check every vote against the members present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Member photos from the Nantucket Current: Dawn E. Hill (with its March 2024 story on her reelection bid), Matt Fee (with his March 2025 reelection column), Brooke Mohr (2025 campaign photo by Jason Graziadei), Robert DeCosta and Jill Vieth (May 2026 election-day photos by Jason Graziadei). Former members show initials.

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